Looking at the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect

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Looking at the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect

Veranstalter
Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in cooperation with Beit Lohamei Haghetaot – the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum; the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw; the Haifa Interdisciplinary Unit for Polish Studies, University of Haifa; Moreshet – the Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center; the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw; and the Professorship of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies, Leipzig University
Veranstaltungsort
Leipzig and digital
Gefördert durch
Alfred Landecker Foundation
PLZ
04109
Ort
Leipzig
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
17.04.2023 - 19.04.2023
Website
https://www.dubnow.de
Von
Julia Roos, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow

Held in Leipzig on April 17–19 2023, the international conference on »Looking at the Ghetto ...« commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 80 years ago. The lectures will be digitally broadcast and will be held in German and English, each simultaneously translated. The keynote lecture will be given by Jan Tomasz Gross.

Looking at the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect

The memory of the uprising became controversial almost immediately after its repression by German forces. In 1948, Nathan Rapoport’s memorial was inaugurated on the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto to commemorate the uprising’s fifth anniversary. When the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt knelt before that monument during his state visit to Poland in December 1970, his gesture aroused agitated debates in Germany and beyond. The legacy of the uprising became a matter of dispute, among Jews and non-Jews alike: between rival political, social, and national groups and in different languages and cultural contexts.

With the greater attention paid to the Holocaust, the memory of the uprising gained a new dynamic. In Israel, alongside the political dispute regarding the role of the right-wing Jewish Military Union in the uprising, a controversy arose over the meaning of heroism, between struggle for survival and active resistance. In Poland, Marek Edelman’s involvement in the Solidarity movement marked the entanglement of the commemorative history of the uprising with contemporary Polish history. Jan Błoński’s 1987 article, »Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto« triggered an emotional debate regarding the role of the Polish population facing the Holocaust, which continues in different forms until today.

This conference will bring together the historical event and its memory. The contradictions relating to the memorial history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were born from the complexity of the event itself. Memorial icons will form the epistemological point of departure for the conference. Their emergence, impact, and transformations in various layers of time will be peeled back. Larger questions of universalism and particularism, nationalization and acculturation, experience and memory will be invoked, concerning the destruction of anthropological certitudes, the transformation of Jewish self-understanding, and the character of the ghetto as a point of transit between life and death.

The conference will take place in English and German, with simultaneous translation being offered. We recommend registration; please use our registration form on our website www.dubnow.de

You can also participate in the conference digitally; you will find the link to the live stream on www.dubnow.de shortly before the event. Registration for this is not necessary.

Programm

Monday, 17 April 2023
Venue: Paulinum – Aula und Universitätskirche St. Pauli, Leipzig

1 p.m., Welcome Remarks
Eva Inès Obergfell, Rector of the Leipzig University
Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute

Introduction
Jan Gerber

1.30 – 3 p.m., Remembering the Uprising
Chair: Andrzej Żbikowski
Greetings: Monika Krawczyk, Director of the Jewish Historical Institute

Agnieszka Haska
History, Politics and Collective Memory: The Ongoing Battle in the Landscape of the Former Warsaw Ghetto

Jan Gerber
Split Guilt: The Memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Divided Germany (Lecture in German)

3.30 – 5.30 p.m., Driving Forces
Chair: Michał Trębacz
Greetings from the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN

Laurence Weinbaum
“They Must Leave an Imprint…”: Unraveling the Convoluted Story of the ŻZW in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Matylda Jonas-Kowalik
“We Share the Same Goal – The Fight and the Resistance:” A New Look on the Communist Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

Tom Navon
“Socialist Youth Were Still Fighting”: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Modern Jewish Politics

6 p.m., Keynote Lecture
Chair: Yfaat Weiss

Jan Tomasz Gross
“It’s Nothing. It’s in the Ghetto.” Reflections on the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Venue: Paulinum – Aula und Universitätskirche St. Pauli, Leipzig

9 – 11 a.m., Outlook on the Uprising
Chair: Maren Röger

Luiza Nader
The Witness and the Bystander: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Visual Works of Halina Ołomucka and Mieczysław Wejman

Agnieszka Kajczyk and Anna Duńczyk-Szulc
Anthology of Glances: Warsaw Ghetto and the Uprising in Films and Photographs

Christoph Kreutzmüller and Tal Bruttmann
Shifting Perspective: The Stroop-Report Photos and the Ghetto Fighters

11.30 a.m.–1.30 p.m, Protagonists
Chair: Noam Rachmilevitch
Greetings from the Ghetto Fighters' House

Avihu Ronen
Women as Leaders: The Role of Women in the Jewish Resistance in Warsaw and Other Ghettos

Maria Ferenc
Making of the Hero: Memory of Mordechai Anielewicz in the First Years after the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto (1949–1943)

Constance Pâris de Bollardière
A Multi-Directional Contextualization: Marek Edelman’s Recovered Notes on the Warsaw Ghetto

2.30 – 4.30 p.m., Bearing Witness
Chair: Tanja Zimmermann

Karolina Szymaniak
“Eyes Wide Open, Red from Smoke:” The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the Work of Rachel Auerbach

Rivka Brot
Tzivia Lubetkin: The Private and the Public, The Symbol and the Body

Yehudit Dori Deston
Resistance, Memory and the Law: The Testimonies of Tzivia Lubetkin and Rachel Auerbach at the Eichmann Trial

5 – 6 p.m. Main Lecture, digital
Chair: Elisabeth Gallas

Havi Dreifuss
Disobedience, Escape and Hiding: The Unknown Battle of the Masses

8 p.m. Memorial Concert for the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Members of the Leipziger Universitätsorchester
Welcome: Jörg Deventer
Venue: Grassimuseum für Musikinstrumente, Leipzig

Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Venue: Salles de Pologne, Leipzig

9 – 11 a.m., Wartime Perspectives
Chair: Bernd Karwen

Sebastian Musch
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Bermuda Conference on Refugees: Global Connections of Two Events in April 1943 (Lecture in German)

Noam Leibman
Wartime Memoirs: Jewish Policemen’ Attitudes Toward the Uprising

Noam Rachmilevitch
Wartime Commemoration: The Adolf Berman Collection

11.30 a.m.–1.30 p.m, Interpretation and Commemoration
Chair: Stefan Rohdewald

Stephan Stach
Ber(nard) Mark: Historian of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Lecture in German)

Yechiel Weizman
The Dialectics of Commemoration: Anniversaries of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Communist Poland

Paweł Dobrosielski
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Anniversary Ceremonies 2015–2022 in the Shadows of the Polish Nationalistic Memory Politics: Public Discourse Analysis

2.30 – 4:30 p.m., The Art of Memory
Chair: Noam Leibman, Greetings from Moreshet

Anna Artwińska
The First Witnesses: Władysław Szlengel’s “What I Read to the Dead” and Jerzy Andrzejwski’s “Holy Week” as Catastrophic Narratives and Social Diagnoses (Lecture in German)

Markus Roth
Staging Resistance: Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto on Stage During the Holocaust and Afterwards (Lecture in German)

Samantha Baskind
“I like my Jews Mean and Fighting:” Leon Uris’ “Mila 18” and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in American Culture

5 – 7 p.m., Round Table Discussion
Between the Uprising and its Commemoration
Chair: Tom Navon

with Rachel Einwohner, Avinoam Patt, and Daniel Blatman

8 p.m. "Ahead of the Lord God:" Maria Schrader reading Hanna Krall
Chair: Anna Artwińska

followed by a conversation between Anna Artwińska and Barbara Breysach (in German)

Concept and Organization
Dr. Tom Navon/PD Dr. Jan Gerber/Lukas Böckmann
Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow

Kontakt

Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Goldschmidtstraße 28, 04103 Leipzig
+49 341 21 735 50, conference@dubnow.de

https://www.dubnow.de
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